I had a survey on city brain project of Alibaba. I am not optimistic on the idea of the project such as to resolve traffic jam problem just through optimizing traffic lights.
Are you able to share your results? I agree with you about traffic optimization, even if it works it will encourage more traffic and more sprawl, I have a chapter in press that, among other things, warns of the risk of doing dumb things with smart tech
Agree with your point. Urban problem management need focus on the core drivers and meanwhile with systematic view. As for our project we have not developed the paper yet. Once we have the final form it can be shared with you.